Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 2 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 3 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 4 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 5 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 6 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , in the potion laboratory , Mildred was desperately trying to overbalance the jar by climbing up the side and leaning on it . |
| 8 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 9 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 10 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 11 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 12 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 13 | Alternatively , if a firm made its issue thinking share prices were indeed going to rocket ( for that is what the low yields implied ) , then it could be worth its while to take the cash and invest it back into equities or other financial instruments . |
| 14 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 15 | Whelan showed considerable grace and skill up front but the strategy of putting high balls into the West Ham box was never going to work with their defensive blanket , and a highly competent goalie . |
| 16 | The broad thoroughfare was now corning to life . |
| 17 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 18 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |